FYI: This is a somewhat intense and painful chapter for Bella. It is about her conversion to a vamipire and if you don't want to know exactly what happen from my POV I would suggest not reading this chapter. I toned it down as best I could and I hope you don't find it too nightmarish.
Fire. It made her body feel like molten lava. Ever so slowly, the fire started to travel through her veins, but her heart had stopped. She couldn't feel it. Slowly, excruciatingly slowly, the pain moved. From her back it spread to her legs and up toward her heart, the bites on her wrist seem to spread their fire until they met with that of her elbows and then continued up her arms. The bite on her neck spread to meet the pain at her shoulders even as it spread up into her neck causing one massive headache. Every vein in her body felt the pain, the fire, and she realized that she would always know where each and every vein and artery was in any human body. The knowledge was burned into her mind down to the smallest vein in her little toe.
Then she felt her brain as it seemed to explode over and over in small little bursts of pain. She felt a trickle of blood slip down, out of her nose. It seemed as if her head was about to explode. Over and over she would feel a popping as parts of her brain were converted. Over and over she felt a burning in her mind. For a moment, or an hour, that pain alone seemed to override all the others. She no longer had any recognition of time passing She couldn't't think. Then her eyes began to feel as if they were about to explode. The pain spread through her face, fire spread down her nose, into her mouth. She felt the muscles of her face contract and it felt as if her skin was stretched beyond its ability to the point of tearing. Her teeth were locked together, her chin tight. She grimaced and her cheeks burned. She felt a tingling as her hair, eyelashes, and eyebrows fell out and grew back in at a rapid rate. She was sure it would be the most pleasant experience of the ordeal.
Then the rest hit her. Her heart burned as the venom reached it. She felt a spasm wrack through her body as her heart exploded. Not in the tiny, slow changes like that of her brain but in one quick explosion. She felt herself twist, fighting to move, to get away from the pain wracking her body and that one small piece of conversion. Her heart pulled itself back together slowly, this time with a vampiric quality. Cold stillness. She felt a horrible heaviness settle there as her mind cleared, but with clearance, came a full comprehension of all the pain.
He stomach was twisting. She could feel her intestines locking up bile hit her burning throat and her body shook. She felt her insides coming up and when she could no longer hold it in, a bloody vomit escaped her mouth. Her stomach heaved up its contents. All the human food it held escaped. Along with it came chunks of human insides. She wasn't sure exactly what it all was, but it tasted horrible and made her gag even more. When there was nothing human left of her stomach, the venom attacked her muscles.
She felt the vemon as it ate at her muscle. She couldn't't even move to relieve the pain because she didn't have any muscle left to move. The venom at at her leaving her no way to fight it. The pain was intense as she watched her legs seem to deflate and then regrow. Slowly the shrink and expand spread upward, to her back side then the muscles of her back and stomach, up past her shoulders and chest to her neck and face. Then pack down once again, this time working on her skin which seemed to bubble, boiling the heat was so intense. Pieces seemed to slip off her body only to be quickly replaced with the pale vampiric skin that the Cullen's shared. It sickened her, but she had nothing left to puke up, only a twisting sensation as she watched the last piece of her humanity fall away from her.
Finally, with pain leaving her, she looked around. And met the eyes of Edward.
